Wednesday, 4 February 2015

When it comes to community service and social development, the youth proves to be that section of the society which is contributory in improving the conditions of today, thereby securing a better tomorrow. Keeping this attribute in mind, we have collaborated with 11 schools for the academic year 2015-2016 and six major activities will be conducted such that students all around the city actively participate ,and understand the true meaning of "community service". Involvement of youngsters is the ultimate key for the development of the country.

'Save Kids Lives' is a campaign started in support with the Third United Nation's Road Safety Week after observing that, EVERYDAY more than 500 children lose their lives in traffic crashes globally & THOUSANDS are injured. This campaign is a traffic awareness & a road safety campaign which has been carried out globally. In this campaign, the volunteers had to collect signatures from a number of children as well as the adults, after reading the declaration to show support for this venture. By signing the declaration, they are helping to:

support the movement for road safety led by children around the world.

Mr.Aakash Shah being the Advocate for MY WORLD 2015 UN survey, started with this campaign in India as a UN representative. APD (Action For Pune Development) was a part of this campaign. 40 of our members went down on the streets, to various schools, to societies & to public places to get this declaration signed from a number of people. We were successful in collecting around 24,000 signatures till date & we're aspiring to get a lot more signatures in the next few days. Our members told each and every person who signed this declaration, the importance of road safety, how the children are affected in a large number & the cons of not following these basic traffic rules.

This campaign helped us realize the importance of road safety too with the others. Hence we as the Youth, abide to follow each and every traffic rule & try to make others follow them too hereafter. Safety starts with "S" but begins with "YOU" :)

Tanvi Kanade

Advocate, Save Kids Lives campaign.

Collaboration & Coordinating head, APD.

Team #SaveKidsLives

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The Activity was Collaborated and this article was drafted by Tanvi Kanade.

Action for Pune Development was started with an aim to awaken the need for community service among youngsters.

Members of this organisation have been working in Pune city for the last two years. The activities included safety against road traffic,working for school children,donations in orphanages and old age homes and many more.

Last week, we conducted an activity for the traffic policemen in Pune.

Traffic police always face hindrances while working and so we thought of helping them by doing a small gesture of distributing a pair of socks and napkins.

The policemen work for the entire day in the sun. This indirectly affects their personal hygiene.

Hence to help them maintain their hygiene, we distributed napkins amongst them.

Also we gave them a pair of socks thinking of the ongoing winter season.

The activity ended on a very good note. We got a very good response and the policemen were extremely happy to have received help from us.

All the members were also satisfied with the response.
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The article has been written by Devyani Natu.